Valeria Finucci
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Laurea in Modern Languages and Literature (Roma), PhD in Comparative Literature (Illinois). Professor at the Department of Romance Studies, Duke University. Already taught at VIU in Spring 2001 and Fall 2004. Her interests include: Renaissance literature, theater, women's studies, early modern medicine, and psychoanalysis.
She has written on femininity and power in Renaissance discourses, The Lady Vanishes: Subjectivity and Representation in Castiglione and Ariosto (Stanford, 1992) and on issues of masculinity and paternity, The Manly Masquerade: Masculinity, Paternity, and Castration in the Italian Renaissance (Duke, 2003). Editor of Renaissance Transactions: Ariosto and Tasso (Duke, 1999); and co-editor of two collections of essays, Desire in the Renaissance: Psychoanalysis and Literature (Princeton, 1994) and Generation and Degeneration (Duke, 2001). Also published the critical edition of a 16th century Italian chivalric romance, Moderata Fonte's Tredici canti del Floridoro (Mucchi, 1995), and of the only prose romance written by a woman in the Renaissance, Giulia Bigolina's Urania (Bulzoni, 2002 - forthcoming in English as Urania, a Romance printed by University of Chicago Press). She is co-editor of the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies.
